MELLISH, David Batcheller, a Representative from New York;
born in Oxford, Worcester County, Mass., January 2, 1831;
attended the public schools;
became a printer in Worcester;
taught school in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania;
proofreader in New York City;
reporter on the New York Tribune;
stenographer to the police board of New York City for ten years;
appointed assistant appraiser of merchandise for the port of New York in 1871;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1873, until his death in Washington, D.C., on May 23, 1874;
interment in Hillside Cemetery, Auburn, Mass.